Events

Step into the future...

The foodservice world is changing: affected by an economy in recovery, technological advances, sustainability initiatives, and an ever more sophisticated public. How healthy is the foodservice industry? Will 2016 be a good year

Gardening 101:  The Basics

Learn how easy and fun gardening can be!!  Join Bay-Friendly Landscape Professional & Garden Educator Lori Caldwell to learn the basics to be a successful first time gardener.  Topics will include:  healthy soil building, tr

You can grow wonderful fruit in spite of our recent drought and warm winters. Speaker Series Presenter, John Valenzuela, will share simple and effective growing strategies and techniques, with water wisdom and microclimate magic. He will also discuss

Bath Salts & Salves with Hollie Lucas-AlcalaySaturday, February 6 • 10:00 a.m.  

Learn how to make your own herbal bath salts and healing salves.  Hollie will show us how to use her homegrown herbs and blend them with pure salt, oils and beeswax to ma

Superstar gardener Marian Woodard presents a very special opportunity to learn the most effective, most natural, deeply earth-centered gardening practices in this 8- week series. No matter what size your yard is, you'll learn to be more self-sufficie

If you consider yourself a local food producer or urban farmer – you grow and/or cook for others (or would like to join this movement) – please join us this Saturday as we start the conversation about food production and sharing in Solano County.  We

Succulent Arrangements with Diane GoldsmithSaturday, January 23 • 10:00 a.m. 

Create a Valentine inspired succulent arrangement with succulents from The Gardens.  Explore ways to create an interesting composition of succulents that will grow well in a

Take a bite out of low hanging fruit with easy ways to save energy and increase profits...

FSTC's Sr. Energy Analyst Todd Bell will share his top 10 best practices that every commercial food service facility should adopt as 'standard practice'. These

Would you like to learn how to manage invasive species using a holistic, permaculture-inspired approach? Join Benicia Community Gardens at our upcoming Speaker Series presentation "Sustainable Urban Agriculture"! Tao Orion, permaculture design teache

The EcoFarm Conference is more than a conference. It’s a gathering for inspiration, renewal, and celebration. We are in an era of unprecedented opportunity, a time in need of alternatives to advance a vision of a food and farming system that is healt

Join the Rotary Club of Pleasant Hill, Boy Scouts, the team at Rodgers Ranch Urban Farm & Heritage Center, and other community members for a hands on rain barrel workshop. We will install four rain barrels off the tool shed at the top of the hill. $2

It’s totally possible to have a thriving garden with no chemicals, lots of beneficial insects, and less work than you might think! Superstar gardener Marian Woodard will teach you about:
·      Healthy Soil. We'll test samples, including from your ya

Rose Pruning with Marsha Hildebrand
Saturday, January 16 • 10:00 a.m. 

Join us in The Gardens as Marsha shares her expertise in rose pruning techniques.  Proper pruning will greatly enhance the quality and quantity of blooms in the coming season and ov

Winter Blooming Plants with Kristin Yanker-Hansen
Wednesday, January 13 • 7:00 p.m.

One of the most common requests landscape gardeners hear from their clients is for year-round color.  We are lucky that our climate allows us to grow plants and flowers

A Showcase of Youthful Innovation and Entrepreneurship!

Admission is FREE! No pre-registration required.

Details and directions at www.InnovationFair.org

Innovation Fair Events:

5 to 7 pm
TECHNOLOGY EXPO and INVESTOR FAIR
15 student companies - Che

Help take care of one of our native plant restoration sites! People with all levels of experience are welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Please wear sturdy shoes, comfortable work clothes, and bring a water bottle. SPAWNERS will provi

Contra Costa County is holding three free educational workshops on Community Choice Energy, a program that allows local governments to pool their electricity needs and purchase power on behalf of their residents, businesses, and municipal facilities.

There are simple and elaborate methods for identifying and measuring the energy and water use of equipment in commerical kitchens. This seminar will cover the various submetering methods and equipment including: using free equipment available in all

Contra Costa County is holding three free educational workshops on Community Choice Energy, a program that allows local governments to pool their electricity needs and purchase power on behalf of their residents, businesses, and municipal facilities.